Higher Ed Headlines
A few stories from around campus and across the field of higher education that we're following at the moment:
Around Campus
- Annual recycling competition diverts almost 400 tons of waste from landfills | Emory News Center
- Human rights lawyer to deliver Emory Commencement address | Emory News Center
- Research roundup: Recent grants and publications for Emory faculty and staff | Emory News Center
- 2020 Women of Excellence Awards set for March 5; RSVP for the celebration | Emory Alumni Association
- Acclaim: Recent honors for Emory faculty and staff | Emory News Center
- New synthesis tools enhance 3D chemical space for drug discovery | Emory News Center
- Feast of Words celebrates Emory faculty authors and editors | Emory News Center
- RSVP for the 2020 Pride Awards to be held Tuesday, March 3 | Emory Alumni Association
- RSPH renames Department of Environmental Health in honor of Eugene and Rose Gangarosa | Rollins School of Public Health
Related News
- Business briefs: The Hatchery welcomes students, and more (The Hatchery featured) | Atlanta Intown
- 150-year-old mummified bee nests found in Panama City cathedral| Berry Brosi Featured | Smithsonian Magazine
- Emory adds deferred MBA admit program for college seniors (Melissa Rapp quoted) | Poets & Quants
- Here’s how to blow the perfect giant soap bubble, according to physics (Emory University research featured, Justin Burton quoted) | Discover Magazine | Smithsonian Magazine
- RCE Greater Atlanta brings home two international awards in sustainability (Emory’s co-leadership of RCE Atlanta cited) | SaportaReport
- Georgia joins federal effort to fight suicides among troops, veterans (Emory Healthcare Veterans Program featured, Barbara Rothbaum quoted)| AJC
- Are expensive kids activities a scam? (Sabino Kornrich research cited) | New York Times
- 50 states of love (Tayari Jones' book featured) New York Times
- Political Rewind: After New Hampshire, presidential candidates plan next steps (Andra Gillespie and Alan Abramowitz interviewed) | Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Nova explores the history and habits of pets on ‘Dog Tales’ and ‘Cat Tales’ (Greg Berns’ research featured) | Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Yad Vashem: Blame us, not Russia, for ‘unfortunate’ video at Israel’s Holocaust event (Deborah Lipstadt quoted) | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Inside a lab where scientists are working urgently to fight the coronavirus outbreak (Emory Drug Innovation Ventures featured, Georgia Painter quoted) | Washington Post
- Acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni to give free reading at Emory University Feb. 22 (Emory’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series featured) | Decaturish
Across Higher Ed
- Court hands international students big immigration victory | Forbes
- Big donors to colleges increasingly focus on ways to spur social mobility | Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)